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Old June 29th 17, 03:29 PM posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Larc[_3_]
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Default Program to stream .vob ?

On Wed, 28 Jun 2017 17:04:38 -0400, Flasherly wrote:

| On Wed, 28 Jun 2017 16:19:34 -0400, Larc
| wrote:
|
| I was going to recommend the same thing. Potplayer will definitely stream .VOB
| files. 32 and 64 bit versions available. Free! Beats VLC hands down, IMO.
|
| https://potplayer.daum.net/
|
| Larc
|
| Give SMPlayer a shot if you haven't. It has a nice software-driven
| GAMMA adjustment in the video EQ section. Perhaps the better render
| of the two, although klunkier IMO defining/reassigning hotkeys in
| preferences. (Also may error out when first started -- a related
| error that's easy to find in preferences and, once
| selected/deselected, a program restart and it's fixed.)

I'll check it out. But I use Potplayer much more for audio than video. Most of my
computer video is from YouTube and Amazon Prime. Firefox handles that.

| I'm back to running D-Sub (15pin VGA) after using an 15-pin adapter to
| DVI-D, the last which I like somewhat better, except for the adapter
| is a pain. Seems overall there's a more natural contrast to DVI-D,
| blacks and saturation less easily affected by a tendency for
| overwhelming white wash-outs. Also have an HDMI cable on the way,
| shipping in. My first time up with HDMI to see how that turns out.

I like HDMI and DisplayPort connections and find them generally better than DVI. Also
there are no screws to contend with. Currently using DisplayPort on my main system.
Interesting that monitors are getting away from DVI connections. Many don't even
have them now.

Larc
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Old June 30th 17, 12:58 PM posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Default Program to stream .vob ?

Paul wrote:
pheasant16 wrote:


Thanks for the advice.

Just to be su I want to stream this to the Roku box. I can watch
.vob on the computer now, just want to send it to the tv. Is there a
channel I need to add to Roku once I install the POTplayer?


https://web.archive.org/web/20150602...annel-support-


"What media file types does the
Roku Media Player channel support?

The Roku Media Player channel enables you to play back
personal video, music and photo files from a DLNA server
on your local network (or a USB drive attached to a
USB equipped Roku).

Video — MKV (H.264) --- Container (Codec inside container)
MP4 (H.264)
MOV (H.264),
WMV (VC-1, firmware 3.1 only)

Music — AAC
MP3
WMA
FLAC (firmware 5.3 and later),
WAV (firmware 5.3 and later)

Photo — JPG, PNG, GIF (non-animated)
"

This allows your Windows PC to stream content to the Roku.
Since Windows has a DLNA compliant server. What the
Windows box is going to lack, is flavorful transcoding.
Windows has its own ecosystem, and to avoid licensing
fees associated with certain codecs, it cannot transcode
stuff from outside its own ecosystem. To Bill Gates
"all what you need is WMV", which of course is not true.

https://www.howtogeek.com/215400/how...-media-server/


The VOB file is MPEG2.

The container type isn't too important, but there
is a need to convert the VOB file to H.264 codec.

There are third party streaming servers you could use
without the Windows one enabled. Serviio might be
an example. Some of those will do the transcode
for you. But, you need horsepower to do that. And
you don't really want to transcode in real time,
unless the transcoder is "faster than real time"
while using 100% of a CPU core say. Transcoding
before the fact, and storing movie.mkv on the PC,
will allow streaming to occur as just a network
delivery issue, and not a compute issue on the source
end.

https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/art...nscoding-Media

"Mobile devices are still in their infancy and are
not nearly as powerful or flexible as a desktop PC.

They have special requirements when it comes to
playing back media. Ideally, the media should be sent in:

* The ideal resolution
* The right media encoding (H.264, etc.)
* A compatible file container

The Server acts as a Universal Translator.
"

So that's the transcoding concept. If you provide
the file as movie.mk4 (H.264 codec) then Plex would
not need to transcode.

*******

In addition to "pulling" content from the PC, you
can "cast" to the Roku. Which is "pushing" from
a computing device. Maybe an Android device could
"cast" to it. I'm only mentioning this possibility
for the sake of completeness, since casting can have
its own set of problems. And you always want to work
on problems, ones you can comprehend.

https://www.howtogeek.com/214785/how...-on-your-roku/


Paul


Thanks Paul.

Your very thorough explanation confirmed what I suspected I'd need to do
all along. PlayOn has changed something in the past 3 years, and for
someone of my limited computer ability, using something like Handbrake
to convert the vob to mp4 is the least taxing thing for me to figure
out. Most of my videos are old classics from the 40's and 50's, so
quality isn't a big issue anyway. Shoot going from 4-5GB to 1MB file
size means I won't even need any additional storage space.
Did add a USB 3 card (XP only finds it about every other boot) LOL so if
I get ambitious and want to convert the library can pick up and small
external drive and make it portable.
 




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